Helen Marie Clark

Helen Marie Clark, 82, Chesterfield, died Saturday, July 22, 2006, in Chesterfield. She donated her body to the St. Louis University School of Medicine.She was born Oct. 11, 1923, in Pasadena, Calif., the daughter of Louis and Edith Caulkins. She attended HGI Bible School in El Monte, Calif.Mrs. Clark was a member of St. Clare of Assisi Church in Chesterfield. She was a foster mother for Los Angeles County Family Services for five years. She created 40 photo albums covering her family history in chronological order and wrote seven journals of Caulkins, Clark and Carley family history. She also collected audiotapes of family voices and events.She married James W. Clark, a Lawrence, Kan., native, on Dec. 12, 1941. He survives, of the home.Other survivors include a daughter, Dee Aubrey, Chesterfield; two foster daughters, Suzanne Mollenkopf and Estella Gutierrez; two brothers-in-law, Arley Clark, Mission, Kan., and Stanley Clark, Rizal, Philippines; four sisters-in-law, Opal Dean, Tucson, Ariz., Peggy French, Lawrence, Kan., Neva Benton, Sacramento, Calif., and Eunice Bledsoe, Merriam, Kan.; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.A son, David Eugene Clark, died earlier, and a daughter, Grace Edith Silva, died earlier.The family suggests memorials to Children International, P.O. Box 219055, Kansas City, MO 64121.